Dr. M.E. (Maria-Eugenia) Iacob

Maria Iacob

Assistant Professor

Capitool Building, Room C1-05

P.O. Box 217

7500 AE Enschede
Tel: +31 (0) 53 489 4134

Fax: +31 (0) 53 489 2159

Email: m.e.iacob@utwente.nl

General information

Maria-Eugenia Iacob is currently assistant professor at the department of Information Systems and Change Management, at the University of Twente. Previously she worked as scientific researcher at Telematica Instituut (2000-2006). She holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Analysis from the University Babes-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has done research in several projects in the areas of service-oriented architectures, model driven development, model transformations, e-services architectures, design methods, business and e-business process (re)engineering, (enterprise) information systems architectures and e-government.

 

Participation in research projects

National programs:

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U-CARE (program “IOP Generieke Communicatie” of SenterNovem, role: work package manager, researcher; partners: Universiteit Twente, Orbis Medical and Care group, IZIT, IBM, TKH Group en MobiHealth ; http://www.freeband.nl/project.cfm?id=489)

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Freeband A-MUSE (http://www.freeband.nl/project.cfm?id=489)

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GigaPort Transaction Services (https://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/View/Collection-155, http://www.gigaport.nl/info/home.jsp)

European projects:

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Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software – Interop NOE http://www.interop-noe.org/

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Context Aware Collaborative Environments for Next Generation Business Networks - COCONET (Project IST-2001-37460) http://www.telin.nl/projecthome.cfm?id=104&language=en

Contract-based

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Planning Apart Together (Port of Rotterdam, MIS-Cobiva, Vito, Altimedes, and University of Twente)

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ArchiMate – http://www.telin.nl/index.cfm?ID=252&context=253&language=nl (ABP, ABN-AMRO, Belastingdienst, Telematica Instituut, Ordina, LIACS, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, CWI)

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IMPact http://marktplaatsen.telin.nl/ (Telematica, Syntens, beneficiary: Ministerie van Economische Zaken)

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B-Dossier http://www.telin.nl/index.cfm?ID=353&context=354&language=nl (Telematica Instituut, U. Twente, Ordina, Belastingdienst, Gemeente Den Haag)

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Enterprise Architectuur Methode (Provincie Overijsel, BiZZdesign)

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Innovation Voucher Agrologistiek – Data mining and statistics in the logistics sector (Agrologistiek B.V.)

 

Teaching 2008/2009

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Business Process Support (237400) – bachelor (year 2)

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Business Information Systems Practicum (233040) - bachelor (year 2)

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Busines Process Integration Lab (237650) – master (year 2)

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Foundations of Information Systems (186396) - master (year 1)

 

Research interests

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Business Process Management and (re)engineering

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Enterprise Architectures: Methods, modelling and (quantitative) analysis

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Interoperability of enterprise applications

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Service-Oriented Architectures

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Model Driven Design & Model Transformations

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Performance analysis

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Context-aware services and applications

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Multi-Agent Systems

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Electronic commerce and networked business

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E-government and e-services

 

Other professional activities and achievements

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NAF-architecture prize 2008 for the ArchiMate-team (http://www.naf.nl/nl/naf-prijzen/2008_rijkswaterstaat_archimate__jan_hoogervorst.html)

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Co-organizer of the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) technical track at the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – SAC 2009, March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, http://www.mb.utwente.nl/iscm/news/eis_sac_2009/.

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Co-organizer of the 9th IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference, Enschede, Sept. 2005 http://edoc2005.ctit.utwente.nl/committee.html.

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Member in the program committee and reviewer for several conferences, scientific workshops, and international journals (e.g., Information Systems Frontiers and Software and Systems Modelling)

 

Short CV

Education

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1998, March: PhD in Mathematics, specialty: Mathematical Analysis, University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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1989, June: Dipl. in Mathematics and Computer Science, University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Working Experience

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Assistant Professor, department of Information Systems and Change Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands august 2006 - ongoing.

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Scientific researcher, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, The Netherlands, july 2000 - august 2006.

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Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 1997 - October 2001.

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Assistant Professor at the Telecommunication Department, Polytechnic University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (part time), May 1998 - June 2000.

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Teaching Assistant and PhD candidate at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, February 1991 - September 1996.

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Researcher at the Territorial Computing Centre, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 1989 - February 1991.

 

Publications

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The Open Group, ArchiMate 1.0 Specification, Contributing authors: M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst, E. Proper, Van Haren Publishing, 2009, ISBN: 978 90 8753 502 5, http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/.

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D. Moody, M.E. Iacob, C. Amrit, In search of Paradigms: Identifying the Theoretical foundations of the Information Systems Field, Paper submitted to ICIS 2009 and under review.

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M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, A Model-driven Perspective on the Rule-based Specification of Services, Submitted to Enterprise Information Systems Journal (accepted, to appear in September 2009).

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W. Engelsman, H. Jonkers, H. M. Franken, M.-E. Iacob, Architecture-Driven Requirements Engineering, Accepted for publication and presentation at CAISE 2009 industrial track, will be published in a book in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

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H. Bakker, M.E. Iacob, Web-Services in the Dutch Healthcare Insurance Sector: Expected Versus Achieved Benefits, Accepted for the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2009, March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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Wilco Engelsman, Maria E. Iacob, Henry M. Franken, Architecture-Driven Requirements Engineering, Accepted for the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2004, March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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M.E. Iacob, M.W.A. Steen, L. Heerink, Reusable Model Transformation Patterns, In Proceedings of the 3M4EC workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), September 2008, p.1-10.

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M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, A Model-driven Perspective on the Rule-based Specification of Services, In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), September 2008, p. 75-84.

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T. van Eindhoven, M.E. Iacob, M.L. Ponisio, Achieving business process flexibility with business rules, In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), September 2008, p. 95-104.T. Scheppers, M.E. Iacob, P.A.T. van Eck, A lifecycle approach to SOA Governance, In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, vol. 2, p. 1055-1061.

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S.M. Iacob, J.P. Iacob, M.E. Iacob, Optimized Dynamic Semantic Composition of Services, In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, vol. 3, p. 2286-2292.

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M.E. Iacob, H. Franken, H. van den Berg, Enterprise Architecture Handbook, BiZZdesign Academy Publishers, Enschede, 2007, ISBN 978-90-809722-6-1.

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H. van den Berg, H. Franken, M.E. Iacob, Primer Enterprise Architectuur, BiZZdesign Academy Publishers, Enschede, 2007, ISBN 978-90-809722-8-5 (Dutch).

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M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst, M. Steen, Service-oriented enterprise modelling and analysis: a case study, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), 2007 - Vol. 2, No.1 pp. 26 - 37.

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J.P.A. Almeida, M.E. Iacob, P. van Eck, Requirements Traceability in Model-Driven Development: Applying Model and Transformation Conformance, Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 327-342, Sep. 2007.

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M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, "Quantitative analysis of service-oriented architectures", International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan.-Mar. 2007, pp. 42-60.

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M.-E. Iacob, H. M. Franken, H. van den Berg, H. Bakker, Capturing Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise, Via Nova Architectura (e-journal), http://www.via-nova-architectura.org/, 25 April 2007.

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H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, C. Köllmann & M. Goedicke, "An integrated approach to model-driven design, execution, analysis and monitoring", in R.J. Gonçalves, J.P. Müller, K. Mertins & M. Zelm (eds.), Enterprise Interoperability II: New Challenges and Approaches (Proc. 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications, I-ESA'07, Funchal, Portugal), Springer, March 2007, pp. 463-466.

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J.P.A. Almeida, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers and D. Quartel, "Model-driven development of context-aware services", in F. Eliassen and A. Montresor (eds.), Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference (DAIS 2006), Bologna, Italy, June 2006, pp. 213-227.

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J.P.A. Almeida, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst and D. van Leeuwen, "An integrated model-driven service engineering environment", in Proc. 2nd Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications Conferernce (I-ESA'06), Bordeaux, France, 22-24 March, 2006.

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J. P. Almeida, P. van Eck, M.-E. Iacob, “Requirements Traceability and Transformation Conformance in Model-Driven Development”, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'06), pp. 355 – 366, 2006, ISBN ~ ISSN:1541-7719 , 0-7695-2558-X.

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M. Bijlsma, M. Lankhorst, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, "Een servicegeoriënteerde architectuur voor de gemeentelijke e-dienstverlening", in C.M. Hendriks, J.A. Oosterhaven (red.), Architectuur in Ontwikkeling: Landelijk Architectuur Congres 2005, ICT-bibliotheek, Sdu Uitgevers, Den Haag, pp. 81-91, 2006, ISBN 90 121 13199.

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M.-E. Iacob and H. Jonkers, “Quantitative analysis of enterprise architecture models”, INTEROP-ESA’05, First International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications, Geneva, Feb. 2005.

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H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, M. Lankhorst and P. Strating, “Integration and analysis of functional and non-functional aspects in model-driven e-service development”, in Proc. 9th IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference, Enschede, Sept. 2005, pp. 229-238.

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M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M.M. Lankhorst and M.W.A. Steen, Service-Oriented Enterprise Modelling and Analysis: A Case Study, in S. Gagnon, H. Ludwig, M. Pistore, W. Sadiq (Eds.), Proc. First International Workshop on Service-Oriented Business Process Integration (SOBPI’05) held in conjunction with ICSOC’05, Amsterdam, Dec. 2005, p. 15-29 http://web.njit.edu/~gagnon/sobpi/sobpi05-proceedings.pdf.

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M. Iacob, H. Jonkers, L. van der Torre, F. de Boer, M. Bonsangue, A. Stam, Architecture Analysis, Chapter in M. Lankhorst (ed), Enterprise architecture at work, 2005, XVIII, ISBN: 3-540-24371-2 ©Springer-Verlag, p.191-222.

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M.M. Lankhorst, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, State of the art, Chapter in M. Lankhorst (ed), Enterprise architecture at work, 2005, XVIII, ISBN: 3-540-24371-2 ©Springer-Verlag, p. 11-46.

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H. Bosma, H. Jonkers, M.J. Cuvelier, P.G.M. Penders, S.F. Bekius, M.E. Iacob, Case studies, Chapter in M. Lankhorst (ed), Enterprise architecture at work, 2005, XVIII, ISBN: 3-540-24371-2 ©Springer-Verlag, p. 275-310.

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M.W.A. Steen, P. Strating, M.M. Lankhorst, H.W.L. ter Doest, M.E. Iacob, Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture, Chapter in Z. Stojanovici & A. Dahanayake eds., “Service-Oriented Software System Engineering – Chalenges and Practices”, Idea Group 2005, p.132-154.

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M.E. Iacob, P. Boekhoudt, F. Ebeling, Helping SME’s to Engage in Electronic Commerce: The Dutch Way, Chapter in Brian J. Corbitt , Nabeel Al-Qirim(eds), e-Business, e-Government & Small and Medium-Size Enterprises: Opportunities and Challenges, Idea Group, ISBN: 1-59140-202-6, 2004, p. 46-64.

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M.E. Iacob, P. Boekhoudt, F. Ebeling, Electronic Commerce Policies for Dutch SMEs, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (II), Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (eds), ISBN: 1-59140-553-X , Idea Group, Pub Date: January 2005, p. 1006-1011.

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NAF werkgroep performance prediction, PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE: Een ‘cookbook’ van de NAF werkgroep performance prediction, http://www.naf.nl/content/bestanden/041213_naf_performance_kookboek10.pdf.

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R. van Buuren, H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, and P. Strating. Composition of relations in enterprise architecture models. In H. Ehrig, G. Engels, F. Parisi-Presicce, and G. Rozenberg, editors, Graph Transformations – Proceedings of the Second International Conference (LNCS 3256), pages 39–53, Rome, Italy, Sept. 2004.

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M.-E. Iacob, D. van Leeuwen, View Visualisation for Enterprise Architecture: From conceptual framework to prototype, in ICEIS 2004, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Volume 3, Porto, PORTUGAL, April 14 – 17, 2004, p. 629-634.

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H. Jonkers, R. van Buuren, F. Arbab, F. de Boer, M. Bonsangue, H. Bosma, H. ter Doest, L. Groenewegen, J. Guillen Scholten, S. Hoppenbrouwers, M.-E. Iacob, W. Janssen, M. Lankhorst, D. van Leeuwen, E. Proper, A. Stam, L. van der Torre, G. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Towards a Language for Coherent Enterprise Architecture Descriptions, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing, 16 – 19 September 2003, Brisbane, Australia, p. 28-39, ISBN:0-7695-1994-6.

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S. M. Iacob, R. L. Lagendijk, M. E., Iacob, Asymmetric Similarity Measures for Video Summarisation, in Veltkamp, Remco C.; Burkhardt, Hans; Kriegel, Hans-Peter (Eds.), State-of-the-Art in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval, Computational Imaging and Vision series, vol. 22, 2001.

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Iacob, S. M., Lagendijk, R. L., Iacob, M.E., “Video abstraction based on asymmetric similarity values”, in Sethuraman Panchanathan, Shih-Fu Chang, C.-C. J. Kuo (Eds.), Proc. SPIE Vol. 3846 Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV, 1999, p. 181-191.

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S. Tigan, A. Achimas, I. Coman, T. Drugan, E. Iacob: Multiobjective Decisions. SRIMA, 2001, ISBN 973-99781-3-4 (Romanian).

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M. E. Iacob, I. Coman: Networks and Convex Functions, In Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Algorithms, Editors: Y. Alavi, D.R. Lick, A. Schwenk. New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1999, 249-258 (revised version) and Proceedings of the Eight Quadrennial International Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Applications, Western Michigan University, 1996.

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M.E. Iacob, Convexity, Approximation and Optimisation on Networks, PhD Thesis, University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca, 1998 (Romanian).

 

Supervision of Master Projects

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I. Eeftink, Mapping BiZZdesigner to Mendix, June 2009, at BiZZdesign.

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B. Steen, Generation of optimal business processes from business rules, May 2009, at Logica.

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E. Kuijken, A comparison of continuous process improvement methods for BiZZdesign, April 2009, at BiZZdesign.

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S.R. Koster, An evaluation method for Business Process Management products, May 2009, at Capgemini.

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S.M. Welberg, Enterprise Architecture Model Transformation, February 2009, at Capgemini.

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L.O. Meertens, EPC to BPEL Transformations, January 2009, at Sogeti.

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M.P.H. Hoogstraten, Strategic information systems planning and BiZZdesign: a proposal of a method and modeling domain, November 2008, at BiZZdesign.

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T.E. van Eindhoven, Increasing flexibility by combining business processes with business rules, January 2008, at TNO.

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M. Veger, A stage maturity model for the adoption of an enterprise wide Service-Oriented Architecture (SMM-SOA): a multi-case study research, September 2008, at Capgemini.

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T. van den Brink, Ketenarchitectuur: succes- en faalfactoren bij de invoering van het digital klantdossier, September 2008, at Atos Consulting.

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W. Engelsman, A method for Requirements Management and modeling, 2008, at BiZZdesign.

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J. Versteeg, A method to leverage Oracle Forms applications in a SOA, June 2008, at Oracle.

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M. de Geeter, Mid-office architecture for municipalities, January 2008, at Pallas Athena.

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G.J.A. Bastiaans, Standardising transactions based on state-of-the-art concepts, November 2007, at TNO.

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T. Schepers, A lifecycle method for service-oriented architecture governance, July 2007, at DeloitteG. De Haan, Analysis on extending Finture’s role in the mortgage-intermediary’s primary process, June 2007, at Topicus

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H.J.M. Wijnen, Een modelgedreven aanpak voor het opstellen en valideren van bedrijfsregels in berichtenstandaarden, April 2007, at TNO.